Not Diane: The Risk of Error in Chaucerian Classicism.

Description: Explores scribal errors in copying and comprehending details regarding classical characters and classical allusions in poetry, and how poets' phrasing implies awareness of those risks and seeks to mitigate them. These problems in transmission reveal how classicism, which later became a monumental tradition, was a risky interaction in some of its earliest phases. These problems also suggest the risks of writing for scribal transmission in general.